TeleWare Supports IMS

THIRSK, U.K. -- TeleWare, the leading provider of intelligent business communication solutions to large and medium Enterprise and Service Providers, today announced their commitment to the IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) architecture.

TeleWare pioneered the use of intelligent Number, a solution by which you are always contacted on the same number irrespective of your location, connection medium or device – cable modem, PSTN, plain POTS telephone, mobile phone, PC, PDA or laptop – anywhere in the world. The first TeleWare intelligent Number solution was launched in 1991 and, today, TeleWare is still one of the few companies that can pull a call to a ‘here and now’ location that is network and device independent. In 2004, TeleWare ported the intelligent Number to a SIP-based architecture and so embraced the principles of IMS (IP multimedia subsystem).

IMS is an IP multimedia and telephony core network and provides an access-agnostic element designed to support any type of IP session over the network, whether that network is fixed, LAN based, as in 802.11, or mobile, as in 802.15, CDMA or GSM networks.

“Vendors such as Nortel, Lucent, Motorola, Siemens and Ericsson are all moving towards an IMS solution although, for many of them, this is very challenging since their hardware and software architecture is, in most cases, highly inter-dependent,” said Geoff Haworth, Chairman and Founder of TeleWare Plc, “ TeleWare has always supported an open architecture. In 2003, we made the decision to port all of our applications to a SIP-based architecture and the present version is device, location and network independent – a solution entirely compatible with the IMS philosophy,” added Haworth.

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